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The Slumbering NAACP

If Jeopardy were ever to come calling with a job as a question writer, I have a question under the lunacy category. “Which organization of lunatics is accusing the Tea Party of racism?”

After they return from a 60-second commercial break, the contestants roll their eyes at the ease of it all and ring the buzzer. “The NAACP,” one of them calls out. Because the question really is a shoo-in depending more on the quickness of the buzzer hand than anything else.

Like prodding a possum out of a hole with a stick, about the only way to lure them out is when a black person is in trouble. If a person of color commits a crime, they will defend him. If a crime was committed someone of color, they will show up in full regalia because black is beautiful and blacks are the eternally oppressed people. However, they never show up when others are being oppressed because they aren’t black. Sociologists would call it “selective oppression.”

Their latest call to action came via two signs allegedly written by people in the Tea Party. One read, “Obama’s Plan: White Slavery,” and the other one read, “Obama, what you talkin’ about Willis? Spend my money?”

Still, it would have been all too predictable to see what would have happened if someone printed a similar sign aimed at another ethnic group. If anything, it would have been enough to prod Al Sharpton and company back into their holes.